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You take out my power grid, I'll take out your dam.

RSA Executive Chairman Art Coviello has some pretty specific ideas about the risks of cyberwar. For one thing, he's not all that worried about attacks from mainstream nation-states, based on nuclear era principle of Mutually Assured Destruction. You destroy my society, I'll destroy yours.

But in an interview with Forbes at this week's Techonomy conference in Tucson, Coviello notes that there is an increasing probability that we will see some sort of disruptive cyber attack at some point in the next 12-18 months. Sometime in that period, he thinks we could see some sort of disruption of our critical infrastructure.

In Coviello's view, it is more likely for such at attack to be carried out by hackers, terrorists or criminal groups than some other country.

Coveillo has some fascinating views on the subject of cyberwar; get the skinny in the video below.